History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . did they journey ; where pitch their moving tents ? Examinationof the county records of more recent dates fails to reveal the names of theirposterity. Like a flock of birds they seem to
History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . did they journey ; where pitch their moving tents ? Examinationof the county records of more recent dates fails to reveal the names of theirposterity. Like a flock of birds they seem to have risen with one accordand flown away. One only has been traced with certainty. We know thatduring the great Quaker migration to the South, William Millikan and hisfamily went to Rowan, now Randolph Co., N. C. Numerous letters writtenby him have been found, but not in one instance does he mention any Mil-likan save his own son, and we have no evidence of the removal with himof any person bearing the name. His discendants have been traced. Wefind the name of a James Milliken on the Chester county tax-list in 1753and 1754. Knowing that a person of this name removed from Chester toWestmoreland county about this time, we imagine that they were identical,but we have no proof. The name of George Millikan designated of Ken-net, Inmate, appears on the tax-list in 1763. The George Milligan who. POSTERITY OF WILLIAM MILLIKAN. 635 had a grant of land on Chartiers Creek, Washington Co., Pa., in 1786,called Milligans Brewery, may have been the same ; but proof is wanting. It is not reasonable to suppose that these seven men, having reached theirmajority and had acquired estates upon which they paid taxes for twentyyears, all died issueless; and we have no hesitancy in assuming that they hadfamilies whose descendants are now living somewhere within our broaddomain. Turning our attention again to North Carolina, we shall find that WilliamMillikan and Charles Milliken were living in Chatham
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